strangest thing you've seen written on a bathroom wall?

A homework assignment?

Speaking of, I once saw someone asking for help on a chemistry problem on a bathroom wall at college...

What do you need this for? The graffiti on bathroom walls may vary by location (high school, pub, college, etc).

You may get very lucky with folks going out of their way looking for you, we do have some wonderfully generous people here, but don't expect it.

This one is from waayyy back in 1977. My husband and I were driving from central Kansas to Pittston, Pennsylvania to attend his brother's wedding so I know the year and the month, July. We were traveling with one and four year old daughters so stopped often in roadside parks for picnics and play. In the restroom of a roadside park in Ohio I found a diary scratched into the paint of a stall.

It began "Jos and me stuck here. Car give out--June 1977." The next entries talked about how she (there was a name but I can't remember) lived in the park, slept in the car and made sandwiches while Jos hitch hiked for help. One entry stated the problem with the car--I am thinking it was an alternator or a distributor but know next to nothing about cars, so I'm not sure. One entry talked about getting fried chicken and bread from a sympathetic couple. One said that they didn't want the car to get tagged as disabled so pushed it around. Then one said "Jos found a job in town and he hitched back at night." The last one said they were leaving to live in the town and get the car fixed. I think it all added up to 4 days she lived in the park.

My husband was hollering for me, asking me what was taking so long. All I could say was "I'm reading the stall!" I often wondered what happened to that couple. They seemed to be about our age--s6

Above the condom machine: This gum tastes like rubber.

"This door is available in paperback."

But its usually xxxx sux or hearts and initials. Sometimes some initials scored out. or xxx 4 yyy 4 ever. Or a swear word. Usually four letters. Can't ever recall seeing something longer than four letters, probably takes too long to carve.

Motorway service stations on the other hand - almost no graffiti, but plenty of advertising posters - usually for associations for people with bladder control problems or road safety things. Its always good to target your audience closely.

Strange one's I've seen:

"Don't eat the big mint!"
"For a good time, go somewhere else"
"I love slippery grils" followed by "there are two L's in grills"
"While you were reading this I stole your wallet"
"Jimmy Buffett pissed here!"

But the best was a recipe for beer batter, used in the kitchen of the bar. Story is that the guy in charge of making the batter couldn't remember the recipe so the owner wrote it in the men's room.

Jeff

"For a good time, call your Mom. Everyone else does."

About five years ago, in a women's restroom on a college campus, I saw a heading similar to "tell your secrets here". Underneath that, I remember someone confessed about their secret crush, and someone else said they'd been sexually abused and never reported it.

On a lighter note, in another bathroom someone wrote "This way to the Ministry of Magic" as a reference to the Harry Potter series. If I remember correctly, a few others got into a conversation about which characters were the most attractive (Fred and George won, naturally).

I remember seeing several rants against circumsicion in a few different men's rooms in Hawaii. They were all obviously by the same guy and evidently he and it toured some of the same public restrooms. One was in a park, another at a overlook, etc.

A few times he put the URL of his (?) website with more info.

I remember seeing a rather colorful limerick that began:

"Twas on the good ship Venus..."

For some reason, I've never forgotten that one.

In the staff WCs in a busy emergency department: a guide to correctly filling out death certificates, posted on the back of the cubicle door. Someone had appended "please complete certificate before dying on toilet".

My favouritist was on a condom machine

the money thing had been ripped out and in its place "insert baby here for full refund"

Lauram6123 said:

I remember seeing a rather colorful limerick that began:

"Twas on the good ship Venus..."

For some reason, I've never forgotten that one.

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Ah the Sex Pistols...

(1)
"God is dead. -- Nietzsche"
and below, in different handwriting,
"Nietzsche is dead. -- God"

(2) a little poem which I later Googled and learned was written by the poet Wendy Cope:
"Write it in fire across the night:
Some men are more or less alright."
and below in a different handwriting, a response that as far as I can tell was an original composition of the replying graffiti-ist:
"Flow down the river and out to the sea:
Sometimes it's better to just let men be."
(to be clear, this was a women's bathroom, not a unisex one)

(3) "Batman ♥ Robin"

Possibly apocryphal:

"Would gentlemen please note that the sign "wet paint" is a warning and not an instruction".

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From a very long time ago:

"Here I sit, broken-hearted. Paid a penny and only farted."

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My wife has a framed cartoon which used to hang in her bathroom when she was single and now lives in our "downstairs cloakroom".

http://www.comedycard.co.uk/products/funny-greeting-card-fred-leaving-the-lavatory-seat-up

Bad Wolf.

Love this thread!!! All the fun of reading the stall, without the smell!

From a bathroom stall in a restaurant in Manhattan, back in the 1970s:

Edith Head gives good wardrobe.

"They showed me rats, cried Elmo"

From a stall in the math building on a college campus, written in very small handwriting on the bottom edge of the door, forcing you to lean way forward on the toilet in order to read it:

"You are now at a 45 degree angle."